Valve



Patented Feb. 17, 1931 I may c. names, 01' m nnw re ax; x p

' vanv'n' Application filed August 18, 1927. Serial No. 213,358.

My invention relates to a valvewhich may, if desired, be used as a faucet. The-objectof the invention is to provide a valve for controlling the flow or. discharge of fluids I and it belongs to that class of valve wherein more than one fluid is controlled in order to deliver a mixture of various proportions of the several fluids. The'device is useful in controlling the flow of hot and cold water 10 in bath tubs and for shower baths, although the device is not limited to such. uses. t may be used to control the flow of fluids other than 1i uids, such as oxygen and acetylene for torc es and such like. The princi- 16 pal ob'ect of the invention is to provide a valve y means of which a plurality of fluids may be controlled in such manner that various mixtures of the several fluids may. be obtained. For instance, when used for l controllin water for bath tubs or showers, it is possi le to obtain the necessary regulation'of the hot and cold waters to obtain a mixture'thereof having any degree of temperature within the hmits of the liquids which are combined.

I am aware that valves have heretofore been proposed for regulating the combined flow of two liquids but so far as I am aware in all previous devices onl one fluid or liquid could be reduced in ow at a time. In such devices, therefore, if the valve or faucet were set to 'vea maximum flow of both liquids and i then it were turned to reduce'the flow of one of the liquids the other liquid would continue to flow at the 11 or maximum rate. The onl propors tions or mixtures ossible, there ore, were those which could obtained b a gradual reduction in the flow of one of t em.

In the present device a finer aduationof the proportions of the. two fluids-or liquids maybe obtained because both liquids can be simultaneouslyreduced but one more than the other, to alter the proportions.

-Another object of my invention is to provide a valve for controlling the flow of liquids in which valve the parts have a tapering fit and a spring maintains the parts in condltion to prevent leakage. Other featune and advantages will be apparent in the followingdetailed description of one embodiment ofmy invention.

In the drawing forming part. of this ap plication,

valve,

Figure 2 is an elevation thereof with parts I brolren away to'show the interior, Figure 3 1s a sectional view takenon the 'line 3-3 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 's an elevation of the revolvable sleeve member of the valve,

Figure .1 is a plan view of my improved Figure 5 is a sectional view takenon the line 5-5. of Figures, and

Figure 6 is an elevation of'the inner mem-' ber of the valve.

The valve comprises principally twomembers .arran ed one within the other and relatively revo vable, and preferably also, a cas-- ing enclosing the first. mentioned member. In the preferred construction the innermost member of the valve is stationary'and the one surroundin it isv movable although under the broa er aspect of my invention this relationship is not imperative.

In the drawing I .have shown an inner valve member comprisin a body 1 of cirbody is preferably not exactlycylindrical but is slightly ta ered. Iv have shown it as shghtly' eater. 1n diameter at the end 2 an gra ually reduced in diameter toward the end 3 so that the shapejof this body is 'frustro-conical.

'cular shape and having at ends and this. I

here are other ports in the body 1, preferably, though not necessarily, in a similar plane to the (ports 4,- 5. The port 7. extends from the en -3 of the body 1 and mer with another port 8 extending at right ang es thereto. The latter port opens at 9 .on the face of the member 1. If; the member-.1 is to be the stationary member of the valve, as

- these liquids or tapered bore 13 to receive the member 1, the

taper of the bore 13 corresponding with the taper of the exterior of the latter member. This sleeve member 12 cooperates with the member 1 to control the flow of fluids and it closed in a casing and the memberl has certain parts as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The members 1 and 12, are preferably enor shell 14 having a bottom wall 15 provided with bosses 16, 17 to receive the feed pipes 10, 11, and a vertical, cylindrical wall 18 to enclose the members 1 and 12. There is a top or cover 19 for the member 14 which has a flange 20 threaded onto the up r end of this member. The cover 19 is a so provided with a boss 21 having a central aperture through which the stem 22 passes.

There is. a top or cap side the casing 14 and this is threade as shown, into the upper end of the sleeve 12 so that the member 23 may be turned to revolve the sleeve. The spindle 22 is attached at one end, as by a pin 24 to the cap 23, so that the spindle 22, cap 23 and sleeve 12 all move together. The spindle pro ects u wardly, passes through the aperture of t e boss 21 to the exterior of the casing and on its outer end it is provided with a handle 25 by means of which the valve is opened, closed and regulated.

I have shown a coiled spring 26 laced in a socket 27 and pressing between t e cap 23 to exert a slight pressure on the body 1 and sleeve 12 in opposite directions in order to keep these membersin close fit and totake up any play caused by wear.

, The casing 14 is shown as formed a projection or offset 27 forming a mixing chamber 28 extending across the face of the sleeve 12 and in position where the discharge ports of the valve can both discharge their fluids.

The sleeve 12 is provided with ports which cooperate with the outlets of the body 1 in such manner as to permit the regulation and proportioning of the two fluids. These ports are shown similar in shape but reverselyarranged. The port 29 has a straight or uniforra.

portion 30 of sufficient length to uncover or open the port 6 to the full extent when registering therewith. One end of the port 29 is member 23 lyin in-' ineapoe shown as semi-circular at 31. The other end of this port is tapered as shown at 32.

The port 33 is similar to the port 29 only it is disposed where it will cooperate with the outlet port 9 of the body 1. This port 33 also has a straight portion 34 which may register with thefoutlet port 9'to fully open the latter. This port also has a rounded or half circular end 35 corresponding with the portion 31 of the port 29; and it has the tapered end 36 corresponding with the tapered end 32 of the former port. The ports 29, 33am reversely positioned; that is, the tapered end of the port 29 is at the left hand end in Figure 4 whereas the ta cred end of the port 33 is at the right han end in this figure.

Preferably, though not necessarily, a

rifiister with the outlet Lport 6- when one fluid o y is to be discharge and a similar port 38 is provided in the sleeve but at a difierent point and this may be made to register with the port 9 when the port 6 is entirely closed, when the other fluid, only, is to be discharged.

Operation-4f only one fluid is to be discharged, say that from the pipe 10, then the handle 25 is turned, rotating the sleeve 12 on the body 1 until the port 37 registers with the port 6. The fluid from the pipe 10 will then flow through the port 4 and the port- 5 in the body 1 and thence through the ort 37 in the sleeve and into the-collecting cl i amber 23. From there it will discharge through the plpe or nozzle to wherever it is to be used. This causes a flow of the liquid from the pi e 10 only, since the port 9 is closed under the conditions described. If the handle is turned until the port 38.registers with the port 9, then only the fluid from the pipe 11 will discharge. This will flow through the rts 7 and 8 in the body 1, thence through t e port 38 in the sleeve and into the collecting chamber 28.

Neither of the above operations differs from any double control valve.

If it is desired to discharge both fluids and ids to regulate their proportions the steps will I be as follows: Let us assume that in the mixture of the two fluids there is required a larger proportion from the pi 10 than from the p pell. Then the handll25 will be turned until the ports 29 and 33 partly register with the ports 6, 9. Let us say that to start, the rounded portion 31 of the port 29 but slightly registers with the port 6 then, at that time, the part 36 of the port 33 will only slightly register with the port 9. If the handle 25 and with it the sleeve, is turned slightly in one direction the port 29 will open more fully the port 6 and the port 33 will open more fully the port 9, but the efiect on the port 6 will be greater than the efiect on the port 9 and therefore more fluid will be gradually admitted from the pipe 10 into the mixing chamber 28 than that from the port 9. This difference in flow is due to the difference between the shape of the end 31 of the port 29 which registers with the port 6 and the shape of the end 36 of the port 33 which registers with the port 9. If the sleeve is turned in the reverse direction to that just described then the flow from both pipes 10, 11, will be decreased but the decrease from the pipe 10 will be greater than from the pipe 11 due to the portions 31, 36 of the ports acting difi'erently, though simultaneously, on

- the ports 6 and 9.

If the sleeve 12 is turned until the straight portions 30 and 34 of the ports 29 and 33 register fully with the ports 6 and 9 then there will be a full flow from both pipes 10 and 11 into the mixing chamber 28.

If desired, the sleeve may be turned until the portion 32 registers with the port 6 and the part 35 registers with the port 9. Then if the sleeve is turned slightly in one direction the flow from the pipes 10, 11 will be increased and if the sleeve is moved slightly in the reverse direction the fiow will be decreased. But now the flow from the pipe 11 will be increased and decreased at a greater rate than that from the pipe 10 because conditions have been reversed over that first described. That is to say, the part 32 now has the same eifect on the port 6 that the part 36 formerly had on the port 9; and the part 31 has the efiect on the port 6 which the part 35 formerly had on the ort 9.

It will be apparent rom the above that the sleeve may be operated to increase or decrease the flow from both pipes 10, 11 simultaneously and to have the flow from the pipe 10 increase or decrease at a greater rate than that from the pipe 11. Or, conversely, the increase and decrease from the pipe 11 may be at a greater rate than that from the pipe 10. As a result almost any degree of mixture or proportion of the two fluids may be obtained.

Having claim is:

In a valve the combination of two relatively movable valve members, means for admitting fluids from separate sources into said valve, and means for discharging the fluids so that the fluids from said sources are mingled, one of said relatively movable members having a plurality of ports communicating with the fluid sources, the other of said relatively movable members havin a plurality of ports co-operating with said fi rst mentioned ports, one port of said second mentioned relatively movable member terminal portions at each end thereof, the second port in said second mentioned relatively movable' 'member having terminals of the same sh'apefas said first port, but ardescribed my invention what I ranged in opposite relation to the diflerently shaped terminals of the first port whereby the flow of fluid from one of said sources of supply will be decreased and increased at a different rate than the flow from the other source.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 10th day of August, 1927.

HENRY C. HEILOS.

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